anu open badges lecture

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN LEARNING GOES FERAL? ANU 20 MARCH 2014

INSIGNIA PROJECT JOYCE SEITZINGER

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Kia Ora! Goedemiddag! Gidday!

Joyce Seitzinger @catspyjamasnz

LINK TO DIGITAL HANDOUT

http://tiny.cc/feralhandout

SOCIAL MEDIA SAVED MY LIFE…

SO WHERE ARE PEOPLE LEARNING?

WE GRAZE ON INFORMATION - PEW RESEARCH

People live their lives and learn across multiple settings, and this holds true not only across the span of our lives but also across and within the institutions and communities they inhabit – even classrooms, for example. I take an approach that urges me to consider the significant overlap across these boundaries as people, tools, and practices travel through different and even contradictory contexts and activities.

KRIS GUTIERREZ

JOI ITO

“I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.”

@joi

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DIGITAL VISITOR / DIGITAL RESIDENT MAPPING Personal

Institutional

Resident Visitor

QUICK EXERCISE Personal

Institutional

Resident Visitor

DIGITAL RESIDENCY MAPPING

http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2012/11/19/vr-mapping-at-educause/

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INSERT ANY PROFESSIONAL

Everyone has the same building blocks… …but how do you put them together?

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•  Which platform do you use for your information streams?

•  What are advantages/ disadvantages?

•  Where do you keep your work?

•  Is it digital or analog?

•  Private or public?

• Where do you keep track of your digital files and resources?

• What are restrictions/benefits?

• How safe are your collections?

• Do you share collections with others? Why or why not?

• Who are you connected to?

• Which tools do you use to communicate with other students?

• Are the tools public or private?

• What are advantages or not?

• How much do you share about you?

Conversation Curation

Information Streams Portfolio

You

Many students already have confident social identities online, but developing identities as learners, writers, scholars, citizens — these are important tasks as part of higher education. - Catherine Cronin

http://catherinecronin.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/openeducation-and-identities/

ROLE OF INSTITUTION IN DIGITAL IDENTITY

If institutions of learning are going to help learners with the real challenges they face… [they] will have to shift their focus from imparting curriculum to supporting the negotiation of productive identities through landscapes of practice.” - Etienne Wenger (Digital Habitats, 2010)

ROLE OF INSTITUTION IN DIGITAL IDENTITY

•  Which platform do you use for your information streams?

•  What are advantages/ disadvantages?

•  Where do you keep your work?

•  Is it digital or analog?

•  Private or public?

• Where do you keep track of your digital files and resources?

• What are restrictions/benefits?

• How safe are your collections?

• Do you share collections with others? Why or why not?

• Who are you connected to?

• Which tools do you use to communicate with other students?

• Are the tools public or private?

• What are advantages or not?

• How much do you share about you?

Conversation Curation

Information Streams Portfolio

You

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Artefacts Discovery Selection Collection Sharing

The social curation process

Social curation is: “the discovery, selection, collection and sharing of digital artefacts by an individual for a social purpose such as learning, collaboration, identity expression or community participation.” Seitzinger, 2014, Networked Learning Conference Proceedings

Artefacts Discovery Selection Collection Sharing

The social curation process

•  Which platform do you use for your information streams?

•  What are advantages/ disadvantages?

•  Where do you keep your work?

•  Is it digital or analog?

•  Private or public?

• Where do you keep track of your digital files and resources?

• What are restrictions/benefits?

• How safe are your collections?

• Do you share collections with others? Why or why not?

• Who are you connected to?

• Which tools do you use to communicate with other students?

• Are the tools public or private?

• What are advantages or not?

• How much do you share about you?

Conversation Curation

Information Streams Portfolio

You

A NEW FRONTIER FOR UNIVERSITIES

SO IF THAT IS WHERE PEOPLE LEARN, HOW WILL THEY GET RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR LEARNING?

BADGE DEFINITION

•  “Digital credential that represents skills, interests and achievements earned by an individual through specific projects, programmes, courses or other activities.” (Mozilla, 2013)

WHO IS USING DIGITAL BADGES?

•  Khan Academy •  LinkedIn •  Deloitte

•  Gamification

•  Do not talk to each other. •  Not transferable

CODEACADEMY

MOZILLA’S OPEN BADGES

“Learning today happens everywhere. But it's often difficult to get recognition for skills and achievements that happen online or out of school. Mozilla Open Badges helps solve that problem, making it easy for any organisation to issue, manage and display digital badges across the web.”

EARNER, ISSUER, DISPLAYER, AUDIENCE

Image: Mozilla Foundation

IF WE USE OPEN BADGES

•  Can facilitate informal and formal learning

•  Can represent hard or soft skills •  Can be issued by an institution, after-

school club, maker society, employer, a peer,….

•  Can be built on for lifelong learning •  Can transfer between contexts and life

stages

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DR SIMON CROSS @OU: THE POTENTIAL OF BADGES

•  Accredit and evidence learning •  Strengthening student motivation

•  Promoting deeper learning experiences •  Reaching informal/non-traditional learners

•  Helping student better value achievements

•  Recognising competency-based learning

DR SIMON CROSS @OU: FUNCTION OF BADGES •  Recognise learning •  Assessment of learning

•  Motivating learning •  Evaluation & tracking of progress •  Goal setting •  Status •  Instruction to norms •  Reputation •  Group identity •  Tool of resistance or domination •  Symbols of exclusivity •  Souvenirs

DR SIMON CROSS @OU: ROLE OF BADGES

Role of the Issuer

Role of the Earner

•  Solution to motivation issue •  Evidence generator •  Constructive alignment process •  Low cost / low effort option •  Saves time assessing prior learning •  Booster issuer image or profile •  Ties issuer to earner •  Retain authority and status

http://carlacasilli.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/badge-pathways-part-1-the-paraquel/

EVEN BETTER… DETECT PATHWAYS

DESIGNING BADGE SYSTEMS

MOZILLA IS PUSHING AHEAD…

WORKING WITH NON-EDU ORGS

BADGES OUT / BADGES IN

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IF YOU THINK THIS ISN’T GOING TO AFFECT YOU…

WHO HAS ADOPTED THE OPEN BADGES STANDARD?

UNIVERSITIES & OPEN BADGES: MOOCS

@THESISWHISPERER’S INSIGNIA PROJECT

UNIVERSITIES & OPEN BADGES

UNIVERSITIES & OPEN BADGES EG PHD

•  Eg Peer review by publication, maybe no post-peer review •  Having a backpack that displays your progress •  Accept external badges – trust networks – PhD mobility •  Accredit learning done elsewhere with institutional badge

(RPL)

Redefinition

•  Modify current tracking system of PhD students •  Make it easier for a supervisor to take over, or for

supervisor or administrator to spot gaps

Modifica-tion

•  Recognise visibly existing milestones eg award badge on acceptance of research proposal

•  Recognise digital and research literacies

Augmenta-tion

•  No current practice Substitution

COULD BADGES BECOME A KEYSTONE HABIT?

IF BADGES WERE A KEYSTONE HABIT…

•  Learning experience driven by learning design & assessment

•  Step away from content-based courses in the LMS, and go to activity & evidence based learning

•  Make graduate learning outcomes visible •  Less linear, more exploratory learning •  Ability to unbundle assessment activities from learning

activities •  Flexible enrolment & assessment opportunities •  Appropriate staff involved at right time •  Improve feedback loop on progress but also ability to

display progress. Support from peers. •  Sharing of successful pathways •  ….

2nd community call Thur 27 March, 7PM AEST/9PM NZ Google+: OBANZ

Twitter: @ob_anz Facebook.com/openbadgesanz

MORE ABOUT OPEN BADGES?

FROM GUTENBERG TO ZUCKERBERG

John Naughton: “One thing we’ve learned from the history of communications technology is that people tend to over-estimate the short term impact of new technologies – and to underestimate their long term implications”

Joyce Seitzinger @catspyjamasnz joyceseitzinger@gmail.com academictribe.co

Questions?